Pump-curb reservoir.



No. 643,6"). Patented Feb. 20, I900. C. A. BARTLIFF.

PUMP CURB RESERVOIR.

UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

CHARLES A. BARTLIFF, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR TO THE STAR BUOKETPUMP COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

PUMP-CURB RESERVOIR.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent N 0. 643,619, dated February 20, 1900.

Application filed June 6, 1898. Serial No. 682,636 (No modelfl To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES A. BARTLIFF, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at the city of St. Louis, State of Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Improvementin Pump-Curb Reservoirs,of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a side elevational view of my improved reservoir for pump-curbs, showing part of the pump-curb. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the reservoir, showing a slightlymodified form of stiffening device.

This invention relates to a new and useful improvement in reservoirs for pump-curbs, and particularly to that class of pumps known as chain-pumps, together with means for attaching the reservoir to the pump-curb, the object being to construct a reservoir in a cheap and at the same time substantial manner, ob-

viating the objections existing in the usual form of reservoirs now in general use, the same being hereinafter mentioned.

With these objects in view the invention consists, generally stated, in a reservoir and means for stiffening the reservoir to prevent the same being crushed when the assemblingyoke is used. Another feature resides in the means for attaching the reservoir and spout to the pump-curb,which means consist in lugs or ears extending laterally from the reservoir to receive machine-bolts or a yoke, as may be desired, and, finally, other features reside in the arrangement, construction, and combination of the several parts, all as will hereinafter be described, and pointed out in the claims.

The usual form of reservoirs now in general use is made of galvanized or sheet iron and is generally secured to one side of the pumpcurb by means of a yoke or stirrup-shaped bar of metalwhich passes around the outside of the reservoir, usually in a groove adapted to receive the same, while the free ends of said yoke passthrough the curb and then through the flanges on the spout, where they receive suitable nuts, which clamp the parts together. Inexperienced persons clamping the reservoir to the curb in this construction are apt to turn the nuts too far, in which event the yoke will crush the reservoir, tending to distort the shape of the same, so that leakage will result. To obviate this objection to the use of a yoke, I provide means to resist such crushing strain, so that no matter how tight the yoke is clamped the reservoir will not be crushed.

In the drawings, A indicates the reservoir, which is provided with suitable stiffening devices to resist the crushing strain in the event that a yoke is used. There are several forms of stiffening devices for the reservoir for resisting the crushing strain of the yoke, and I a Will now describe how this can be done.

In Fig. 1 I provide an external sleeve B for the 1S6l'V0l1,Wl1lCh sleeve is constructed with lugs or ears I).

0 indicates a spout, and D the pump-curb.

Spout O is formed with an internal projection 0, extending into the reservoir. Spout O has also a flange O for receiving the clamping yoke or bolts by which the spout and reservoir are held to the pump-curb. This attaching medium for the spout and reservoir may consist either in a bolt, such as shown in full lines in Fig. 1, in which event the square head of the bolt fits against the reservoir and is thereby prevented from turning while the nut on the outer end of the bolt is screwed in place, or, as shown in dotted lines in said figure, a yoke may be used whose free ends pass through the ears on the curb and the flanges on the spout, beyond which they receive nuts,which tighten said yoke to clamp the parts in position.

In Fig. 2 the stiffening-brace is similar to that shown in Fig. 1, although somewhat nar-' rower. In either of these forms it will be noticed that in the event that a yoke is employed to clamp the reservoir to the curb means are provided to resist the crushing tendency of the yoke.

The pipe F may be secured to the reservoir in any suitable or preferred manner. In the drawings the pipe is shown as secured in an extended nose A, which may be formed integral with the side walls of the reservoir or (Shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1.)

Reservoirs made as above described are cheap and are of a standard size to be applied to curbs as now sold on the market, requiring no skilful manipulation to assemble them or place them in position on old styles of curbs.

I am aware that minor changes in the construction, arrangement, and combination of the several parts of my device can be made and substituted for those herein shown and described without in the least departing from the nature and principle of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination with a pump-curb, of a reservoir, a strengthening-sleeve therefor, having perforated side lugs, a pipe extending downward from said reservoir, and attaching signature, in the presence of two witnesses, 30

this sea day of May, 1898.

CHARLES A. BARTLIFF.

Witnesses:

RALPH KALISH, WM. H. SCOTT. 

